Michael Herl
Michael "Michi" Herl (born December 9, 1959 in Pirmasens ) is a German journalist , author , television presenter , director , actor and documentary filmmaker .
Life
Herl attended the German School of Journalism in Munich from 1981 to 1982 . He then worked for Stern magazine in Hamburg and then worked in the editorial department in Frankfurt am Main . Herl has worked as a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker since 1984: Herl wrote for the newspapers Geo , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Merian , Zürcher Weltwoche and Frankfurter Rundschau and made TV reports and films for WDR , SWF , NDR , RAI ( Italy ) , Report Baden-Baden and Monitor . During this time, his work concentrated on the areas of the environment, social affairs and social policy, and Herl also reported from Asia at times. In 1984 Herl was instructed by Franz Alt , Report Baden-Baden, to be admitted to the closed department of a psychiatric institution and filmed there with a hidden camera. In 1986, Herl directed WAAhnsinn - Der Wackersdorf-Film , a film produced by Wim Wenders about the anti-WAAhnsinns festival against the nuclear reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf .
In 1996 Herl and Stephan Morgenstern published the slide essay Adonis and the car from Russia (music: Jannis Karis, speaker: Anne Bennent ), which he presented in around 100 cities. Since 1999 he has been seen four times a week as a co-presenter in the program Late Lounge of the hr-television and played as a supporting actor in episodes of the TV series Polizeiruf 110 , Die Kommissarin , Ein Fall für Zwei , as well as in the SAT 1 production A devil for the Engel family (director: Rolf Silber ) and the film 13 semesters . In 1998 Herl founded the Stalburg Theater , a stage with its own theater productions in the north end of Frankfurt, for which he contributes self-written pieces as artistic director. In 2005, Herl was dismissed from HR after 1400 broadcasts on Late Lounge because he had publicly criticized the planned suspension of the broadcast.
Herl has been writing a column for the Frankfurter Rundschau every Tuesday since 2012 .
Plays
- 1998 motherless
- 1999 On Air
- 2000 Young man wanted to travel with
- 2002 If you cook, you don't shoot
- 2002 The world is so small from above, with Simone Jung
- 2003 bulky waste
- 2005 Neumann to Berlin
- 2008 hum hum
- 2009 Herzscheiße, with songs by Funny van Dannen
- 2011 Forest women deer changing
- 2012 Jürgen von Nazareth
- 2013 sex. Or so. - The man who has never talked to his wife about cucumber salad
- 2015 Captain's Dinner
All plays except “Waldweiberwildwechsel” were staged at the Stalburg Theater in Frankfurt. Whoever cooks doesn't also shoot in Bremen, Kassel, Göttingen and Dresden. "Brumm Brumm" premiered in September 2011 under the title Die Fleppen sind weg at the Wechselbad Theater in Dresden. Waldweiberwildwechsel premiered there on March 2nd, 2012, Jürgen von Nazareth was premiered on November 20th, 2012 in Dresden. The premiere of sex. Or so. was on September 5, 2013 in the Stalburg Theater.
Books
- with Mike Alnutt (ed.): WAAhnsinn. Franz Greno Verlag, Nördlingen 1986, ISBN 3-89190-750-8 .
- with Simone Jung : The world is so small from above. Axel Dielmann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-933974-34-8 .
- Local history Frankfurt. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-38023-1 .
- Actually ... - 99 columns. Schöffling-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-89561-666-2 .
Awards
- 2003 nomination for the Grimme Prize for Late Lounge
- 2003 Best Corporate Publishing Award in silver
- 2005 “Skyline” culture award from the SPD Frankfurt am Main
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Herl in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.stalburg.de - website of the Stalburg Theater with information about Herl
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herl, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herl, Michi (Nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, director and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pirmasens |